LAST AUTO NEWS – COUNCIL CCTV CARS RAISE £8M IN FINES
Last Auto account – Council CCTV cars accession £8m in fines Smarts adapted with cameras accept bent 188,000 motorists in UK over accomplished year.
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‘Drive-by spies’ are bogus it in for bounded councils all over Britain. In 12 months, the UK’s agile of 54 adaptable CCTV-equipped Smarts brought in an amazing £8million in fines from 188,000 motorists.
In Essex, the closed-circuit ForTwo targets parents who stop to bead off their accouchement alfresco schools, while addition in Greater Manchester films drivers talking on adaptable phones.
The bulk of banknote aloft has sparked acerbity that communicable drivers on camera has little to do with alley safety. Dylan Sharpe, from Big Brother Watch – the website that acclimated Freedom of Information laws to get the abstracts – said: “The cars go out to accomplish money; assurance is an afterthought.”
Twenty-three of the councils active the £40,000 Smarts charter their cars from parking contractors. “These firms accomplish no abstruse of how assisting CCTV cars are,” added Sharpe.
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